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Rough Beast of the Day
Is RedNote what is slouching toward America to be born?
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The Empire of Ozempic
A piece for @WIRED about Novo Nordisk.
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It's Not Disinformation; It's Fiction
Bunking it, debunking it, and rebunking it. That's no way to treat the internet.
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The Ballad of Edgar Maddison Welch
His intel wasn't 100 percent
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Disrupting Decorum
The climate-change radicals who are willing to be hated
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It's the Song I Hate
Journalists divest from MAGA media—and turn radical. Don't fear the inauguration.
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'Well, This Is About to Go Down'
Reps. Hakeem Jeffries and Jamie Raskin remember the Capitol attack
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The Trucklers
Media still circling drain. Journalists assert autonomy. Radicalism in the wings.
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Why Plant Bombs?
Patrick Radden Keefe on the IRA, Luigi Mangione and moral certainty
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December 2024

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